Ds is 21 months and has had bad contact dermatitis around his mouth due to excess dribbling. He also suffers from dry skin on his body. I took him to the doctors just after christmas to get some more hydrocortisone as his face had flared up and doc referred him to the health centre excema clinic. When I went they told me to ditch my normal routine of bath every other night and daily application of almond oil in favour of bath every night and using Hydromol emolient in bath, Hydrolmol ointment at night and morningand then the Hydrolmol cream during the day (for his whole body and face). Howver in the five weeks since we first went to the clinic his whole body has flared up and is now really sore and itchy. I questioned this with the nurse at the clinic and was told I'm doing fine and to keep on applying the ointment. However I'm really unhappy about doing this as it seems to be making things worse, rather than better. Can anyone offer me any advice or suggestions about what I should do next?